When is a grant proposal or protocol eligible for the 50% discount on the APF?

JMIR Research Protocols offers a 50% discount on proposals and protocols if they are grant funded and have undergone prior peer-review. All of the conditions below must be fulfilled:

as proof of previous peer-review, authors must at the time of submission upload the original peer-review reports from the granting agency (and ideally also authors' responses)

these reports/letters should be uploaded as Multimedia Appendix, and should ideally be published (refer to them in the paper as "Multimedia Appendix 1" etc.)

our policy is to publish the existing peer-review reports unless we receive a written notice from the funder that - even with the grant recipients consent - the peer-review reports can not be published for confidentiality or other reasons

the original peer-review reports can be in any language (if you have a translation in English, please supply them)

the peer-review reports should contain an actual narrative and/or quantitative critique of the proposal, or at the very least a summary of committee/reviewer discussions

an ethics approval is not sufficient, you must include peer-review reports from the funding/granting agency. Proposals that are not grant-funded are not eligible for the discount

as "Section" in step 1 of the submission process you must select a section with the word "funded" in it

We reserve the right to charge the full Article Processing Fee if the uploaded peer-review reports do not meet the requirements outlines above. If in doubt, please file a support request ticket with support@jmir.org prior to submission.